Birthday Fishes Card with Kerry Engel

A colleague at work was having a special birthday so I decided to make an extra large card that would accommodate numerous greeting from staff (it measured 6×12). I’ve been using my Ranger distress inks to make watercolor backgrounds for my hand lettering and thought it would make a great background for the fish stamps from Heartfelt Creations.

I got a bit carried away making fish one Saturday night but it resulted in a very impressive shoal. According to Wikipedia “any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling and if the group is swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner, they are schooling”. My fish were swimming in every direction and they looked really social so I’m going with shoal.

When I was done I asked my husband, “now what do I do? How am I going to make an envelope to fit this huge card? To which he replied, “Make a really big piece of paper.” So, that’s exactly what I did. It turned out to be a pretty impressive card.